“Minnesota boy taken to court for refusng cancer treatment”: A 13-year-old a member of the Native American Church organization Nemenhah is refusing actual treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma on religious grounds. Seeing that whatever god may exist does not favor people who refuse treatments that have been rigorously demonstrated to work, this is reckless self-endangerment.

“Televangelist Pat Robertson compares same-sex marriage to child molestation, pedophilia”: Strangely enough, I can understand comparing homosexuality to child molestation and pedophilia; homosexuality has a bad reputation in the Hebrew Bible, so it is easy to compare it with other sexual perversions. However, he also compares it with polygamy, which he seems to hold is Biblically prohibited. Where he got this idea, I have no clue. The Torah lists no prohibition on polygamy, and it was practiced by a number of prominent figures in the Hebrew Bible (’Avraham, Ya‘aqov, Dawidh, Shelomoh...) without Divine disapproval. Shouldn’t a preacher know this?